Anyone who has been following the progress of my scans for the last few days will know where I had arrived at by the end of this strip of negatives from the late 1960s. It is Halifax's answer to a triumphal arch: built by the Borough Engineer in 1900 out of stone and cast iron; a monument to the power of hard work and industry. It is the stone steps leading up to Godley Bridge.
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I was attempting to follow the course of the Hebble Brook yesterday as it slunk its way under North Bridge before it gets lost deep beneath ...

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Y ou can spend too long sat inside reading old newspapers and cataloguing old postcards. There comes a time in the affairs of man when he s...
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It started with a vintage picture postcard of Elland I bought on eBay for 99 pence. Elland is just down the road and I always try to keep a...
My brother knows that I'm not one to flatter, far from it. However, I consider his 1960's/70's photographs of Halifax and locality not only worthy of Bill Brandt but equally of Eric de Mare. This one is a masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteMoreover they serve to fulfill the role of all art: that is, to enable us to see beauty that previously had escaped our notice. I have passed over this bridge countless times but never saw.
Praise indeed, Vincent. Thank you.
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